Rajasthan BJP MLA Kalyan Singh Chouhan Passes Away After Prolonged Illness

Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kalyan Singh Chouhan passed away on Wednesday at the GBH American Hospital in Udaipur in the wee hours. He was suffering from cancer and was admitted in the hospital.

Chouhan was an MLA from Nathdwara constituency in the Rajsamand district and was going through treatment for cancer for past three years.

The BJP legislator had made news when he had defeated Congress stalwart CP Joshi by just one vote in the 2008 Assembly polls back in 2008.

Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and BJP state president Ashok Parnami expressed their condolence and said it was a great loss to the party and for the people of Nathdwara.

नाथद्वारा के ऊर्जावान और लोकप्रिय विधायक श्री कल्याण सिंह चौहान जी के असामयिक निधन पर शोक संवेदनाएं व्यक्त करती हूँ। श्री चौहान जी भाजपा संगठन का एक अभिन्न अंग थे और उनका निधन मेरे और समस्त भाजपा परिवार के लिए एक अपूरणीय क्षति है। pic.twitter.com/RVtY03uwmh

— Vasundhara Raje (@VasundharaBJP) February 21, 2018

Earlier in the day, BJP also lost their Noorpur MLA Lokendra Singh from Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh in a road accident. The Prime Minister had expressed anguish over the accident and condoled the death.

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